Quotes About Culture

The two funniest tribes I've ever been around are Indians and Jews, so I guess that says something about the inherent humor of genocide.

Nothing as white as the white girl an Indian boy loves.

She was so white his reservation eyes suffered.

How many books do you have here?" Corliss asked. "Two million, one hundred thousand, and eleven," the librarian said proudly, but Corliss was frightened. What happens to the world when that many books go unread? And what happens to the unread authors of those unread books?

Indians, indians, indians." She said it without capitalization. She called me "indian, indian, indian." And I said, Yes, I am. I am Indian. Indian, I am.

Lynn's parents refused to accept Sean Casey's Indian blood and, in fact, exhibited a kind of denial that was nearly pathological in its intensity.

Why do I constantly feel as if all of you are speaking a foreign language? What is 'grabbing a burger at the Hard Rock' supposed to mean? (Julian) The Hard Rock Café is a restaurant. (Grace) You eat at a place that advertises its food is hard as a rock? (Julian)

We are coming up on the Sumerian apokalypsi–. (Artemis) I don't think they use that word. (Kat) Who cares what word they use? End of the world is end of the world regardless of whatever term you use for it! (Artemis)

You? You can't believe this? I'm the one who has to go to Artemis to save your ass. She was freaking out over Zarek, now how the hell do I explain to her that Mr. Cool-Calm-and-Collected was doing his impression of Spider Man in a bar loaded with tourists and ended up as the main feature on Tokyo news as what's wrong with American culture? Question. How many rules did you break in less than a minute? (Acheron)

I am the Earl of Ravensmoor. And you are? (Sparhawk) Totally freaking out. (Taryn) Tis a most peculiar name, milady. Are you by chance Welsh? (Sparhawk)

Have you ever heard of feng shui? (Randy) Yeah. It's the 'put the mirror on your door and sleep in the right direction' bullshit. (Steele)

Did they practice looking suspicious in mirrors? Welcome to the United States. Don't even think about chewing gum the wrong way.' (Carlos)

Menyara's Creole accent was as thick as his mother's jar of refrigerated roux, and Nick loved the sound of it. He wasn't quite as pleased with his own. No matter how hard he tried to hide his accent, it always came out in certain words like praline, etouffee, pecan, and any time he lost his temper. You could easily tell how mad he was by how Cajun he sounded. And if he started spewing all Cajun words, duck.

As a result of the assault on Christianity, the Christian faith has been isolated more and more into a tiny private sector of life and removed from the whole public spectrum of America.

Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life.

Scientists have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is life after death -- though they say it's virtually impossible to get decent Chinese food.

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

It is time that we as Christians recognize that it is our beliefs and our values and our way of life that are under attack.

I lived in London for eight years and I like to say that I am two parts American and one part British because I lived there for a third of my life

Nothing reveals more about the inner life of a people than their arts.

History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.

One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.